Greek and Latin Expressions of Meaning : The Classical Origins of a Modern Metaphor

• मुख्य लेखक: Andreas T. Zanker (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: C.H.Beck
• विषय: linguistics; meaning; Latin; Greek
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Verbs and nouns of meaning in ancient Greek and Latin are polysemous, just as in the case of the English verb "to mean". Andreas T. Zanker considers how the ancient vocabulary could be used in different ways and investigates its development over time. In the first part of the book, Zanker...